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June 2023 Monthly Update
🕑 Added 2023-06-06 04:24:48 +0000 UTCHello lovely patrons!
I hope you all had a great May. It was a busy month for us, progress wise, but we're getting further and further along with our development on all of our projects!
Anyway, on to the update:
The Sun and the Moon
We've finished our final checks on The Divine Speaker: The Sun and the Moon and the game is officially ready for release!
If you missed it, we posted our trailer to YouTube finally!
Wishlists & Reviews
If you haven't already, make sure to go wishlist the game on Steam.
It really helps our release! If you enjoy the game (or think you're going to enjoy the game) we'd also really appreciate day one reviews (you can edit them later!!). Hitting 10 quickly makes a big difference on Steam!
Game Copies
Lastly, there's not long left to claim a free copy of the game if you're on the correct tier! You can go to this link to claim it on itch.io.
Dreambound
Writing
We've now COMPLETED our writing of Crow's good, bad and netural endings! We'll still probably tweak some things as we get further in the other two routes, but we're very happy with the finished product. We plan to work on a beta build of his route when we're a little further with writing on Ivan and Kaine's routes.
In other news, we also brought on an additional writer to help with cleaning up the outline and writing the first draft of Kaine's route. With the art catching up with Ivan's writing, we wanted to make sure we were ready to move straight over to Kaine's route CGs. We're quite picky with hiring writers, so we weren't sure if anyone would apply that we'd be happy with, but we were happily proven wrong!
Ebihime has already completed the Kaine route outline and gotten approval, and started on writing his scenes. We think the first draft will be complete by the end of the month, and then I will go through it personally to add in additional scenes and double check the characters.
This is an unedited first draft of a scene between Noah and Kaine - however, as you can see, Ebihime has already grasped the tone of the game very well!
Physical Merch
18.5kgs of wallscrolls and dakimakura recently arrived on my doorstep (boy was that a huge and heavy box to carry through my house...). We're still waiting on the acrylic merch to get here, but we will begin shipping out packages this month to anyone that only bought a wallscroll/dakimakura during our Kickstarter.
Art
We have two CGs and one character sprite left to complete before the art for Ivan's route is 100% finished! We will still probably add a handful more CGs as we finish the writing, but we're close to being done with Ivan, which is exciting news.
After that, we will begin work on the Kaine route CGs, the last of the lot. We anticipate that the artwork for the game should be complete ahead of schedule if we continue at this rate.
Lets look at a completed teaser for a CG we showed last month:
And another finished background:
We've been adding in extra BGs as we edit and write. There's something about new backgrounds that just makes me very happy, haha.
A Date with Death
Opening Animation
We showed off the WIP of A Date with Death's opening animation last month! It should be complete by the end of June, which we're very excited for. If you missed it, here's a teaser:
I really love how dramatic and cool it feels.
Writing
We're still finishing up the writing on day 5/7, but we used last month to brainstorm the CGs and the endings we wanted to include. With a more structured plan, we're ready to take on the ending!
Your relationship with the Grim Reaper is a bit of a strange one, but you'll work it out.
At this point, he's still a bit embarrassed about typing in upper case incorrectly, so he types entirely in lower case.
Giveaway
We're hosting a giveaway to celebrate the upcoming release of The Divine Speaker: The Sun and the Moon!
You can win one of two TDS keys by entering in our Discord!
Focus for the next month
Here's our focus for the next month:
- The Sun and the Moon - Release game, any bug fixing as required
- Dreambound - Writing, editing, planning
- A Date with Death - Editing, writing and programming
Thanks once again for reading, and I'll see you next month!
Comments
Gabmag
You should find a fix for this on Steam - you may need to close and reopen your Steam for it to download! <3
Be-gay-do-crimes
Latest tds update broke the game so I can't launch it from steam
